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the city already opposes the highest cigarette taxes in the country. it also bans smoking in bars, parks and beaches while launching graphic advertising campaigns about the hazards of smoking. smokers of retailers say those restrictions are nannyish and bad for business. it aims at stopping young people from developing a habit that is the leading causes of death. they say the measure would drive younger smokers to neighboring communities t. hearing on the proposal set for may 2nd. i have a funny feeling joe and mika will have more to say about that story. the folk singer guitars who opened the woodstock festival in 1969 died on monday. ♪ sometimes i feel like i'm in time. >> rich chi haven's family said he died of a heart attack a. public mem mofrl is being planned. they say the singer never fully recovered from kidney surgery he suffered from years ago. he may be most famous for the first performer at woodstock. he launched the two day festival with more than two hours of music. havens was 72-years-old. >>> as always, let us know why you are awake.
the city already opposes the highest cigarette taxes in the country. it also bans smoking in bars, parks and beaches while launching graphic advertising campaigns about the hazards of smoking. smokers of retailers say those restrictions are nannyish and bad for business. it aims at stopping young people from developing a habit that is the leading causes of death. they say the measure would drive younger smokers to neighboring communities t. hearing on the proposal set for may 2nd. i have a...
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we'll be right back. ♪ i'm the tax man, yeah, i'm the tax man. should 5% appear to small. ♪ martha: a top republican senator is now objecting to a claim that members of his party were using the boston terror attack as an excuse to delay immigration reform. this is an important hearing on this matter that is underway right now. meanwhile things got a little bit tense yesterday after democratic senator charles schumer made these comments, watch this exchange. >> the chairman has a very open process, so a few ways to improve the bill offer an amendment in may and let's vote on it. i say that particularly to those who are pointing to what happened, the terrible tragedy in boston as i would say an excuse for not doing a bill or delaying it many months or years. >> i never said that. >> i didn't say you did. >> i never said that. >> i didn't say you did, sir. i didn't say you did. i don't mean you mr. grassley. >> chairman i don't appreciate you demeaning the witnesses that are coming here. martha: tempers flaring at that hearing. i'm joined by bob b
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and so it is kind of a regressive tax in that way. we're talking about kind of leveling the playing field everywhere. >> bill: it seems one other advantage for the poor and the middle class which is that all of these programs that are cut because of the budget cuts at the state level, that will pump more money in. >> that's right ones lobbying for this. in a real intense way. the local budgets the state budgets who are saying we have big holes to fill and this is one way of doing it. >> bill: it will help keep medicaid -- >> some of the programs running. >> bill: i used to be against it. i buy so much online, hell, i don't want to pay the sales tax. it is only fair that it is a level playing field and that the small businesses and small bookstores whatever, not be -- >> have to let them compete in a fair way. >> bill: on the right side of this issue. we'll talk motor about this, too. igor, we've already run out of time. i can't believe it. so come back and see us next week. >> i will. thank you, guys. >> bill: thinkprogress.org. you c
and so it is kind of a regressive tax in that way. we're talking about kind of leveling the playing field everywhere. >> bill: it seems one other advantage for the poor and the middle class which is that all of these programs that are cut because of the budget cuts at the state level, that will pump more money in. >> that's right ones lobbying for this. in a real intense way. the local budgets the state budgets who are saying we have big holes to fill and this is one way of doing...
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even though you are supposed to declare those items on your state tax returns and pay the sales tax. very few americans do. the senate voted 74 to 20 as today to take up the bill. with the level of support, the senate to pass the bill as early as this week. >> >> we will take a break is 511 back with more in a moment. when we come back we will the full text of forecast. here's a look at san jose. the ride on 101 looking okay. temperatures outsider pretty good. 54 in san jose looking for near a [ male announcer ] fact: the 100% electric nissan leaf... is more fun than ever. sees better than ever. ♪ charges faster. and will charge. cool. and heat. from your phone. fact: leaf never needs gas. ever. good for the world. built in america. now, leaf's an easier choice than ever. ♪ shop at choosenissan.com. ♪ shop at choosenissan.com. yeah, kfc! original recipe. original recipe? dad, i think you ate the bones. i did what? you ate the bones! i ate the bones? i ate the bones! i ate the bones! [ male announcer ] kfc original recipe, now available without the bone. freshly prepared white o
even though you are supposed to declare those items on your state tax returns and pay the sales tax. very few americans do. the senate voted 74 to 20 as today to take up the bill. with the level of support, the senate to pass the bill as early as this week. >> >> we will take a break is 511 back with more in a moment. when we come back we will the full text of forecast. here's a look at san jose. the ride on 101 looking okay. temperatures outsider pretty good. 54 in san jose looking...
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warrick wants to allow it to sold and taxed in a way that monitors how alcohol is sold and taxed. it is a little more complicated than that because of a little thing call the federal government. and he is tasked with ill plemting the new law, new law a professor of public policy at ucla and author of "marijuana cost of abuse, cost of control." welcome, mark. you're advising washington state on how to implement their new law. what are you doing? what are you advising? such that the law is implemented and people behave in a way that is responsible? and is not about we want more people to get high but we don't want people who are committing nonviolent offenses to be crimin criminalized? >> right. we don't want hundreds of millions of dollars in washington state going to revenues. i'm not sure what did the report you just quoted, but anybody who thought there was $46 billion in available in revenues has been smoking something. that's not going to happen. there is some revenue available. but the point you made is the right point. how do you have cannabis available to adults for respons
warrick wants to allow it to sold and taxed in a way that monitors how alcohol is sold and taxed. it is a little more complicated than that because of a little thing call the federal government. and he is tasked with ill plemting the new law, new law a professor of public policy at ucla and author of "marijuana cost of abuse, cost of control." welcome, mark. you're advising washington state on how to implement their new law. what are you doing? what are you advising? such that the law...
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not a tax. it's about taxes already owed. taxes already owed. not a federal tax. state taxes already owed. sales taxes and use taxes, that's all we're talking about. are we telling any state they must do this or must do that? no. we're saying to states we're simply affirming the spirit of the 10th amendment, which says you have the right to decide for yourself, mr. governor, ms. legislator, what your state tax structure ought to be. up to you if you want to just have some people pay the sales taxes and use taxes that are owed and other people not pay them, that's up to you too. that's your business. but this is a states' rights 10th amendment decision that leaves to the state this ability. i wanted to talk mostly about what we're talking about. we're talking about what happens when you buy something online from a catalog and the local store, and making sure that states are able if they wish to treat all businesses in the same way. now, that's why so many conservative leaders, as they have understood this bill, have come to support it. this is a rarity in the unite
not a tax. it's about taxes already owed. taxes already owed. not a federal tax. state taxes already owed. sales taxes and use taxes, that's all we're talking about. are we telling any state they must do this or must do that? no. we're saying to states we're simply affirming the spirit of the 10th amendment, which says you have the right to decide for yourself, mr. governor, ms. legislator, what your state tax structure ought to be. up to you if you want to just have some people pay the sales...
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we have uncertainty around tax. china's government is just now firmly in place and starting to take action. so i think that didn't allow things to progress on that side as well in the first quarter. >> in terms of china, we spoke yesterday with doug from caterpillar. he said in china things look a little better than they had to this point. what's your business in china look like? >> our business depends on the sector. things like nutrition and health food and agriculture, we're making great progress. automotive. in china, builds were up 12% year over year. in other areas that are infrastructure related, they have been lagging 6% to 9%. things about transformers or motors or generators. we see a lot of indication that's starting to loosen up and improve. >> i'm a nascar fan. i'm a jeff gordon fan. he's my favorite driver. i'm starting to see your name a little bit less on the 24 car. which makes me think automotive paint not where you need to be. i'm surprised by that given the automotive industry has done so well. w
we have uncertainty around tax. china's government is just now firmly in place and starting to take action. so i think that didn't allow things to progress on that side as well in the first quarter. >> in terms of china, we spoke yesterday with doug from caterpillar. he said in china things look a little better than they had to this point. what's your business in china look like? >> our business depends on the sector. things like nutrition and health food and agriculture, we're...
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some counties have different taxes that they add on to their sales tax or they have a municipal tax. and they're saying that will be 9,600 different tax codes, it's almost impossible. for anyone to participate in this piece of legislation, they have got to make a decision on one of those five, five criteria i just mentioned. that brings the tax code down to 46. it simplifies it. so that argument doesn't hold either, the complication of 96, and i know it's been used with our good friend from new hampshire. the beauty of a state without a sales tax that doesn't want to participate, they don't have to. that's the beauty of it. they don't have to. they don't have to participate. they don't have to collect the sales tax from their people, as i said earlier. so they had that option. i know the arguments against the legislation, but again i would say they are just wrong. some critics say this is a tax increase. that's wrong. if i'm paying 6% in west virginia, would i go to a store in fairmont, charleston, huntington, martinsburg, greenbrier, lewisburg, wherever go, it's the same 6%. the onl
some counties have different taxes that they add on to their sales tax or they have a municipal tax. and they're saying that will be 9,600 different tax codes, it's almost impossible. for anyone to participate in this piece of legislation, they have got to make a decision on one of those five, five criteria i just mentioned. that brings the tax code down to 46. it simplifies it. so that argument doesn't hold either, the complication of 96, and i know it's been used with our good friend from new...
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turning internet users into online activists well if this bill becomes law a liability clause in the tax would give companies freedom to hand over private user data to the government according to the electronic frontier foundation quote this bill would override the relevant provisions in all of their laws including privacy laws this includes all personal communications like emails and text messages or files that you might be keeping in a digital cloud almost all right richardson of the a.c.l.u. was on breaking the set just last week to break down this bill which she claims is worse than the patriot act take a look. so broadly though that they can go directly to military agencies like the n.s.a. and allow them to collect information on americans and with a very strong wall here in the united states between our civilian and our military and we don't let the military act against americans on u.s. soil it has it's rooted in our very founding of our country and this is a very dangerous bill because it allows the military to start collecting information on americans yep a stronger marriage bet
turning internet users into online activists well if this bill becomes law a liability clause in the tax would give companies freedom to hand over private user data to the government according to the electronic frontier foundation quote this bill would override the relevant provisions in all of their laws including privacy laws this includes all personal communications like emails and text messages or files that you might be keeping in a digital cloud almost all right richardson of the a.c.l.u....
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cut middle class income taxes to the lowest rate in sixty years, and we're creating tax free zones for business startups. the new new york is working creating tens of thousands of new businesses, and we're just getting started. to grow or start your business visit thenewny.com ...amelia... neil and buzz: for teaching us that you can't create the future... by clinging to the past. and with that: you're history. instead of looking behind... delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions... in everything from the best experiences below... to the finest comforts above. we're not simply saluting history... we're making it. your doctor will say get smart about your weight. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! wow. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. b
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cut middle class income taxes to the lowest rate in sixty years, and we're creating tax free zones for business startups. the new new york is working creating tens of thousands of new businesses, and we're just getting started. to grow or start your business visit thenewny.com with the bing it on challenge to show google users what they've been missing on bing. let's bing it on. [fight bell: ding, ding] how many here are google users? what if i was to tell you that you would actually like bing way more than google when it came to the results? prove it. let's look up some taco places. i like the left side. yeah? okay, do we need to find out what the waves are like down at the beach? what side do you like better? i like the results on the right. i'm gonna go with the one on the left. oh! bing won! people prefer bing over google for the web's top searches. don't believe it? go to bingiton.com and see what you're missing. oh, hi thehey!ill. are you in town for another meeting? yup, i brought my a-team. business trips add up to family time. this is my family. this is joe. hi joe! hi there!
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of course it is the whole stupidity of the pig headed bureaucratic elite of tax free limousine liberals in brussels for the past five years has been there in c.m. conceit that they could manage to create build on sound a fungible working you're a real currency it does not work there are countries that have incredible debt that we know large to grow incredible debt they need to default let me ask you this from a purely economic standpoint would it be cheaper for the eurozone to continue paying through its nose for some of its troubled members let's put it that way or to clean up the mass after some defaults it is absolute in some of the way that the euro zone is consistently trying to desperately hold itself together and spending our unbelievable amounts of money at the same time beggaring populations in many countries to lifetimes of unemployment it's not the whole situation is market multiple countries in the euro zone need to leave the euro zone they need to default on their debt and then they need to go up by pragmatic and practical rebuilding of their economies and endeavor not to o
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we've got 1.7 million more. >> steve: what about the taxes there? sears and motorola two of the companies that threatened to leave illinois. >> gretchen: sounds like a scene from "hangover." watch this. >> do not go in the bathroom! >> will you put on some pants? >> there is a tiger in the bathroom! >> gretchen: guess what? a tiger actual will he did get loose at a circus in kansas, at the same time a woman headed to the ladies room. she came face-to-face with the big cat who ended up hiding out in the bathroom. >> my first thought was, okay. i need to be calm. turn around. walk out. you'll be fine. that's what i did. >> gretchen: the tiger was caught a short time later. that was the woman's first time at the circus. she says she's not sure she'll ever go back. >> steve: here is somebody part of our wolf pack, check out this incredible video out of argentina. somebody at a music festival captured the amazing moment -- that was meteor exploding. at first people thought somebody had thrown a flair into the sky. now here is that member of the wolf pack
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dollars or what's taxed. that's the simplest way to. no income tax if you're paid in a. fourth you're paid in. the bread. you know that's it just an exchange a commodity for the use of my time and my skills. serve linda roth child and he is sitting there overlooking all of his sheep and yell in front of fema camps and the i.r.s. and fellow preserve the builder birds and see if. we are the nanny state now where we are being watched almost everywhere we go by security cameras and satellites and drones flying over us we've got our. military now to to extend democracy out there to the rest of the world and as long as we're sleeping we're just watching t.v. everything's going to be just fine there was a while they lose one of us and they don't really like to lose us but it's all collateral damage. now and. the people here believe very strongly in peace we're pacifists we are anti-war. we believe at the same time though that very strong defense and being able to protect your life your liberty and your property is also very important so as walk through you may see guns scattere
dollars or what's taxed. that's the simplest way to. no income tax if you're paid in a. fourth you're paid in. the bread. you know that's it just an exchange a commodity for the use of my time and my skills. serve linda roth child and he is sitting there overlooking all of his sheep and yell in front of fema camps and the i.r.s. and fellow preserve the builder birds and see if. we are the nanny state now where we are being watched almost everywhere we go by security cameras and satellites and...
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he's working on a tax reform bill. not that i think it's going to come to fruition, but he has that kind of access and power. and so i think, you know, for republicans you in theory always like to have of an open seat because incumbents, in theory, are harder to beat. but i think once they're going to to be the underdog in this race. unless the president's poll numbers next year look something similar to 2010 where people had just really soured on his leadership. jon: max baucus was one of the five democrats that voted against the gun control legislation that recently did not make it out of the u.s. senate, much to the president's displeasure. david drucker from "roll call," thank you. >> thanks a lot. jenna: talking about the political implications there with all the different reports of terror attacks over the last several days. one of the things that's come up is whether or not it's going to impact the debate on immigration. today a senate committee heard from homeland chief janet napolitano on reform legislation, a
he's working on a tax reform bill. not that i think it's going to come to fruition, but he has that kind of access and power. and so i think, you know, for republicans you in theory always like to have of an open seat because incumbents, in theory, are harder to beat. but i think once they're going to to be the underdog in this race. unless the president's poll numbers next year look something similar to 2010 where people had just really soured on his leadership. jon: max baucus was one of the...
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why should they trust us to fix the tax code when we use their tax dollars to great artificial markets for uncompetitive industry? why should they trust our vision of free civil society when we give special privileges to supposedly nonprofits like planned parenthood, public broadcasting, agricultural checkoff programs, and the export-import bank? perhaps most important, why should americans trust us at all when too often we don't really trust them when we go for major legislation, nick issued in secret without debating it? and without even reading it. deliberately excluding the american people from their own government. conservatives, equality needs to mean equality for everyone. the second principle to guide our agenda is diversity, or as you might've heard it called elsewhere, federalism. the biggest reason the federal government makes too many mistakes is that it makes too many decisions. most of these are decisions the federal government doesn't have to make and, therefore, shouldn't. every state in the union has a functioning constitutional government. and just as important, each
why should they trust us to fix the tax code when we use their tax dollars to great artificial markets for uncompetitive industry? why should they trust our vision of free civil society when we give special privileges to supposedly nonprofits like planned parenthood, public broadcasting, agricultural checkoff programs, and the export-import bank? perhaps most important, why should americans trust us at all when too often we don't really trust them when we go for major legislation, nick issued...
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internet sales tax which used to be considered the amazon loophole. it cleared a procedural hurdle in the senate yesterday and it could get a vote this week and obama supports levying that tax. they say about $23 billion is lost a year with this loophole and amazon's no longer fighting this battle. actually they're so big and in so many different states that they do not even get involved in this discussion. it is ebay that's been lobbying heavily to keep this loophole in place as we all have enjoyed the benefit from time to time. i want to also point out netflix. you want to talk about andle? it reports after the close today. netflix reported yesterday. netflix stock was at like $53 last september. it is now over $200. they almost have as many subscribers as hbo does now. the stock is up 112%. >> unbelievable! >> 112% in a year. apple's down 30%. >> brian, stop right here. look at that. steve ratner, netflix was on its last breath. they had called in the priest to read it its last rights. i don't want to overplay one thing, but suddenly the guy goes f
internet sales tax which used to be considered the amazon loophole. it cleared a procedural hurdle in the senate yesterday and it could get a vote this week and obama supports levying that tax. they say about $23 billion is lost a year with this loophole and amazon's no longer fighting this battle. actually they're so big and in so many different states that they do not even get involved in this discussion. it is ebay that's been lobbying heavily to keep this loophole in place as we all have...
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that comes across the border with biometric data and can't get obama care so they can work and pay taxes but never get medicaid. you're seeing him going hat in hand trying to sell his bill as even more draconian and far right. we're going to electrify the whole southern border, i suppose, or whatever it is they want. just to get them to pass something that would help the republican party because it would make them less toxic to latino voters. >> joy reid and dana milbank, who i believe was recommending not clitoridectomy, but the removal of the tongue for ann coulter. thank you very much. >> thank you, doctor. >>> as we go to break, new video just in featuring the mother of the bombing suspects, again, insistent that her sons are innocent. >> what happened is a terrible thing. but i know that my kids have nothing to do with this. i know it. [ male announcer ] you could be at the corner of "medicare part d" and "up to 75% lower copays." as a preferred pharmacy, walgreens can save you as much as 75% compared to other select pharmacies. walgreens, at the corner of happy and healthy. as much
that comes across the border with biometric data and can't get obama care so they can work and pay taxes but never get medicaid. you're seeing him going hat in hand trying to sell his bill as even more draconian and far right. we're going to electrify the whole southern border, i suppose, or whatever it is they want. just to get them to pass something that would help the republican party because it would make them less toxic to latino voters. >> joy reid and dana milbank, who i believe...
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states are currently prohibited from collecting sales tax from online sellers who are not physically located in that state. >>> we're getting new information coming into to cnn now on the death of that m.i.t. police officer who was shot and killed by the tsarnaev brothers. what are you learning? >> we want to give you some perspective on what happened. the officer shawn collier, he did not radio into dispatch to request a diskripgs of the suspects. he did not have time to activate the alert on his radio. we are told he was gunned down between four and five times. it was what amounted to an execution. he was shot in the head and the chest. he was sitting alone in his squad car. it took boston police almost 13 minutes to find the vehicle and realize he was the one who had been injured. they were responding to 911 calls from other people in that vicinity. this officer never had time to alert his fellow colleagues where exactly he was. it is unclear where the two brothers ambushed this officer. did they panic? it is not clear. according to a source, they headed away, in the direction of
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but also eliminate some of the special interests tax breaks that disproportionately benefit a very wealthy people. and unfortunately, today, our colleagues refused to come together to negotiate that. in fact, today earlier today, over in the senate, harry reid, the democratic leader simply asked for permission to go to conference on the budget. and the republican leadership in both the senate and the house right now is refusing to appoint conferrees. having called over the last two years for us to go through the regular order on the budget, they're now standing in the way of moving forward to bridge those differences on the budget. in fact i'm introducing a resolution later today simply to call upon the house to move forward in a transparent way, to negotiate these differences on the budget. >> thank you, congressman and i know you would not say that music and art is an extra, that that is music and art education for the kids in the district of columbia, is an essential part of an education. just to make the point. >> these are very important parts of a kid's well-rounded education. and yo
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new york already has the highest cigarette tax in the country, as of late last ye, 28 states banned smoking in all general workplaces, public places, including bars and restaurants. so this essentially would raise the age if it goes through to the same age where you can buy booze so booze a cigarettes in the same category. >> you wonder if that will backfire make mor kidshe same with alcohol wan to try i because you have to be 21 to have access to it. >> i don't know. >> i tnk it's a great idea. >> i do, too. >> there needs to be some tougher legislation. >> the good news is that new york smoking rateor teens in new york city is at like 8.5%, which is far less than the state average and the national average, but it's been stagnating. it had been dropping and now it's stagnating. i don't see anything wrong with it. >> this continues the long decline of smoking in america some numbers that stunned me t wasn't until 1998 that smoking was banned aboard all u.s. domestic flights under six hours. >> i remember we were talking about how it doesn't seem like it was that long ago, i remember taking
new york already has the highest cigarette tax in the country, as of late last ye, 28 states banned smoking in all general workplaces, public places, including bars and restaurants. so this essentially would raise the age if it goes through to the same age where you can buy booze so booze a cigarettes in the same category. >> you wonder if that will backfire make mor kidshe same with alcohol wan to try i because you have to be 21 to have access to it. >> i don't know. >> i tnk...